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NYT > Technology |
Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap? A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.
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TechCrunch |
Stanford’s star reporter takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘money-soaked’ startup culture His reporting on a Stanford University president put Theo Baker on the map, but his upcoming book may cement his reputation as the rare young journalist willing to challenge Silicon Valley's startup machine.
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The Register |
Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come Silicon photonics won’t matter in the datacenter “anytime soon,” according to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.…
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CNET News |
What to Know About Australia's Social Media Ban: Reddit Is Challenging the Law The new Australian law keeping children under 16 off of social media was bound to face legal scrutiny.
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Slashdot |
VMware Kills vSphere Foundation In Parts of EMEA Broadcom has quietly pulled VMware vSphere Foundation from parts of EMEA, pushing smaller customers toward far more expensive bundles and prompting some to consider jumping to Hyper-V or Nutanix. The Register reports: VVF is a bundle that offers compute, storage, and networking virtualization, and a platform to run containers. It's most useful in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds, but is less capable than the Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite. Virtzilla said EMEA customers...
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CNET News |
Best Internet Providers in San Francisco Although Sonic is our top choice for ISPs in San Francisco, there are plenty of other strong options in the area.
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Business Insider |
Where to watch Premier League live streams online from anywhere Premier League live stream options and VPN services ensure you never miss a match, with full details for viewers in the US, UK, Australia and Canada.
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Business Insider |
The best Vuori deals you can shop ahead of the holidays include the most comfortable joggers we've ever tested Vuori never has sales, but we scoured the clearance section to find the best Vuori deals you can shop in time for the holidays.
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Mashable! |
GPT-5.2 vs Gemini 3 — How the two heavyweight models compare on benchmarks, price, and feature set The AI race between OpenAI and Google is heating up with the release of GPT-5.2. How does it compare to Gemini 3?
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Digital Trends |
These awesome rocket charts are perfect for space nerds If you’re a fan of rocket launches, then you’ll absolutely love these charts created by Flight Atlas. The site launched earlier this year but a recent post on X by Rocket Lab chief Peter Beck has brought it wider exposure. Flight Atlas lets you filter rocket launches in a myriad of ways, including rocket type, […] The post These awesome rocket charts are perfect for space nerds appeared first on Digital Trends.
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TechCrunch |
Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2 For the first time, developers can embed Google's Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps.
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MacRumors |
iOS 26 Code Leak Reveals Apple Smart Home Hub Details Apple is working on a smart home hub that will rely heavily on the more capable version of Siri that's coming next year. We've heard quite a bit about the hub over the last two years, but a recent iOS 26 code leak provides additional insight into what we can expect and confirms rumored features.Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Macworld claims to have access to an internal version of iOS 26 that references several upcoming Apple devices, including the h...
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Slashdot |
Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States President Trump signed an executive order establishing a single federal AI regulatory framework that preempts state-level rules, aiming to centralize oversight of the rapidly growing AI industry. "The Trump administration, with the aid of AI and crypto czar David Sacks, has been pursuing a path that would allow federal rules to preempt state regulations on AI, a move meant to keep big Democratic-led states like California and New York from exerting their control over the growing industry," notes...
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9to5Mac |
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xda-developers |
Nintendo has an amiibo problem after Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Nintendo fans have grown increasingly annoyed with how amiibo figures interact with Switch 2 games. And Metroid Prime 4: Beyond doesn't help with it.
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MakeUseOf |
I never expected to use a smart ice maker in my home, but I love it A countertop smart ice maker is a game changer, especially for hosting holiday parties.
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Mashable! |
Bring home this 65-inch TCL 4K QLED TV for its lowest price yet As of Dec. 11, get the 65-inch TCL 4K QLED TV for its lowest price yet.
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VentureBeat |
Google’s new framework helps AI agents spend their compute and tool budget more wisely In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool and compute budgets. The researchers introduce two new techniques: a simple "Budget Tracker" and a more comprehensive framework called "Budget Aware Test-time Scaling." These techniques make agents explicitly aware of their remaining reasoning and tool-use allowance.As AI agents ...
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CNET News |
Best Internet Providers in Chicago, Illinois Chicago has fast, reliable and affordable internet options galore. Here are our CNET's broadband experts' top picks.
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Ars Technica |
Runway claims its GWM-1 “world models” can stay coherent for minutes at a time Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.
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CNET News |
Thursday Night Football: How to Watch Falcons vs. Buccaneers Tonight for Free Find out how to watch or stream tonight's NFL game and the rest of the Week 15 slate no matter where you live.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Google's Stadia controller just got a big upgrade courtesy of Steam It's nice to see
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Business Insider |
Trump signs executive order restricting states' ability to regulate AI Trump has said AI would be "destroyed in its infancy" if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of regulations.
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